Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, oh! I'm in love

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Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, oh! I'm in Love is a pop song written by Ernest Breuer (music), Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson (text) and published in 1923 by the New York music publisher Waterson, Berlin & Snyder.

background

The lyrics of Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, oh! I'm in Love came from the comedian duo Olsen & Johnson , who first introduced the song in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 . The humorous song became popular mainly through Eddie Cantor , also through his appearances with the Ziegfeld Follies . Fred Astaire sang the number in the stage musical Stop Flirting in 1923 . Music magazine Variety added the song to their Hit Parade of a Half Century list .

First recordings and later cover versions

The most successful cover versions of the song included the recordings of Eddie Cantor (Columbia A3934) and the vocal duo of Ernest Hare and Billy Jones ( Okeh 4928 (June 19, 1923), accompanied by the Milo Rega Orchestra and Edison Diamond Disc Record 9050 and Gennett , with the studio formation Bailey's Lucky Seven ), also the instrumental version of the Garber-Davis Orchestra (Victor 19164-A).

Other musicians who covered the song from mid-1922 included Charles Rosoff ( Welte Mignon ) in the USA , the Herb Wiedoefts Cinderella Roof Orchestra (Brunswick 2542), Eleuterio Yribarren in Buenos Aires , Valdemar Eiberg in Copenhagen and Louis Mitchell in Paris 's Jazz Kings and the Orchester Hot Boys Band by Tony Rumolino (both Pathé ). The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of nine (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Joe "Fingers" Carr and the vocal ensemble Les Ondelines (accompanied by the Louis Rey Orchestra). Slam Stewart presented this song with Beryl Booker and John Collins in the film Boy! What a girl! (1947).

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ David A. Jasen: A Century of American Popular Music . P. 149
  2. ↑ a b c d e Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 129
  3. ↑ Ann Ommen van der Merwe; The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song 2009, p. 226.
  4. ↑ a b c Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  5. ↑ With Phil Napoleon , Jules Levy, Jr. (tp), Charlie Panelli (tb), Jimmy Lytell (cl), Loring McMurray, Bennie Krueger (as), Frank Signorelli (p), Nick Lucas (bj) and Jack Roth ( dr).
  6. ^ Ross Laird, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, Brunswick Radio Corporation, Brunswick Records: Chicago and Regional Sessions . 2001, p. 1410
  7. ↑ Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, oh! I'm in Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)